Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-280) and index.

Setting the stage: China's evolving views of information -- China's military: this is not your father's PLA -- Informationized conflict: the strategic challenge of maintaining party control in the wake of the information revolution -- Information warfare: waging information campaigns in the next war -- Information operations: putting theory into practice -- Space and information warfare: a key battleground for information dominance -- Organizing to secure information dominance -- Chinese views of future warfare and implications for the United States.

"As a society that has revered learning and education for millennia, China has a long history of valuing information. As early as the 1980s, the People's Republic of China (PRC) began to pay attention to information technology."--Provided by publisher.